Results 161–180 of 2000 for in the 'Written Answers' speaker:Anna Soubry

Written Answers — Health: North West London Hospitals NHS Trust (15 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: The number of finished admissions episodes (FAEs) and mean and median time waited (days) for cholecystectomy procedures during 2010-11 at North West London Hospitals NHS Trust is shown in the following table. Data for 2011-12 are not yet available and will be published in due course. Procedure Provider Total FAEs Mean time waited Median time waited Cholecystectomy procedure North...

Written Answers — Health: North West London Hospitals NHS Trust (15 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: The number of finished admissions episodes (FAEs) and mean and median time waited (days) for hip replacement, hysterectomy and cataract removal procedures during 2010-11 at North West London Hospitals NHS trust is shown in the following table. Data for 2011-12 are not yet available and will be published in due course. Procedure Provider Total FAEs Mean time waited Median time waited ...

Written Answers — Health: Out-patients: Attendance (15 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: The available information is shown in the following table. No estimates have been made centrally of the cost to the national health service of missed out-patient appointments. Out-patient appointments and missed appointments (DNA), Consultant led, All specialties. 2007-08 to 2011-12—provider based   First attendances seen First attendances DNA First appointments % first...

Written Answers — Health: Patients (15 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: The Royal College of Physicians has recently published a report proposing a new system for recording and assessing the severity of illness of acutely ill patients. The system involves measuring six physiological parameters and combining and weighting them to produce a single overall score, which can then be used to guide the further clinical response such as emergency assessment by a critical...

Written Answers — Health: Smoking: Health Education (15 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: The Stoptober campaign launched on 8 September 2012 and continues until the end of October 2012. The projected final cost is estimated to be £5.7 million. This includes advertising, printing, distribution, events and all production costs which include support packs, digital assets, follow-up communication, face-to-face events, materials for partners and creative development for television,...

Written Answers — Health: Tranquillisers (15 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: The Action Plan for 2012-13 for the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA) requires it to continue to support the development and delivery of effective local recovery-orientated systems. Such services, which could include provision by the voluntary sector, are commissioned at a local level, and the information requested about them is not collected centrally. The NTA's activities...

Written Answers — Health: Ambulance Services: Airwave Service (16 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: The Airwave radio system is used by all ambulance services in England, Scotland and Wales to communicate vital information between ambulances, their control rooms and the wider national health service. This includes both voice and data messages that are used to control the dispatch of ambulances to critically ill patients who require rapid access to healthcare. Airwave also provides...

Written Answers — Health: Heart Diseases: Children (16 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: My hon. Friend will be aware that the Safe and Sustainable review is a clinically led, national health service review, which is independent of Government. It is, therefore, for the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts to decide what information to release about the review and we are unable to comment any further.

Written Answers — Health: Strokes (16 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: Both the National Stroke Strategy and NICE Stroke Quality Standard underline the importance of getting people with a suspected stroke to a specialist acute stroke unit as soon as possible. The Department's award-winning Act FAST campaign aims to raise awareness of the symptoms of stroke and the need to treat it as a medical emergency so that people receive the necessary specialist treatment...

Written Answers — Health: Bovine Tuberculosis (17 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: Between 2007 and 2011, 97 cases of “Mycobacterium bovis” were reported in England and Wales, as shown in the following table. Number of “Mycobacterium bovis” cases reported to Health Protection Agency national surveillance, England and Wales, 2007-11   Number of cases 2007 20 2008 16 2009 16 2010 23 2011 22 Total 97 Source: Health Protection Agency...

Written Answers — Health: Hunter Syndrome (17 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: We are currently consulting with the NHS Commissioning Board on the list of services which will be directly commissioned by the Board from 1 April 2013. Included within that list are services for people with Lysosomal Storage Disorders such as Hunter's Syndrome. These commissioning arrangements are not dependent on the existence of the independent stakeholder Advisory Group for National...

Written Answers — Health: In Vitro Fertilisation (17 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: From April 2013, infertility treatment services will be commissioned by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) with the NHS Commissioning Board providing oversight and support. The current National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence fertility guidance is not mandatory for NHS commissioners but the Government has consistently encouraged commissioners to take full account of this...

Written Answers — Health: Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum (17 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: Pseudoxanthoma elasticum is a fairly rare genetic disorder. Professional guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of pseudoxanthoma elasticum is available from the following website: www.patient.co.uk a source familiar to general practitioners and other clinicians. It is for local commissioners to determine their priorities for commissioning local services for people with this condition, in...

Written Answers — Health: Brain Cancer (18 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: On 12 January 2011, we published “Improving Outcomes: A Strategy for Cancer”, which sets out how the Government had committed over £450 million over the following four years to support earlier diagnosis of cancer. This money is being used to raise awareness of the symptoms of cancer; fund increased general practitioner (GP) access to diagnostic tests; and pay for more testing and...

Written Answers — Health: London Ambulance Service (18 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: This information is not held centrally. The hon. Member may wish to contact the London Ambulance Service.

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Independent Reconfiguration Panel (18 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: The Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP) has been commissioned to undertake two full reviews and 13 initial assessments from May 2010 to date. A full list of IRP work is available on the IRP website at: www.irpanel.org.uk

Written Answers — Health: NHS: Procurement (18 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: The Department has commissioned an independent review of the process for qualifying providers under Any Qualified Provider (AQP) arrangements in 2012-13. The findings of the evaluation will be published later this year. There will be subsequent evaluations of the impact of the AQP commissioning approach on service quality.

Written Answers — Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (19 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: The Government's policy is that front- line national health service reconfigurations and major service changes should be locally led and clinically driven. The underlying rationale should be that changes deliver an improvement in quality and outcomes for patients. The guiding principles are the Secretary of State's four tests, which are that schemes should be able to demonstrate: support from...

Written Answers — Health: Blood and Marrow Transplantation (19 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: This work is led by the NHS Commissioning Board who have provided the following response. Clinical Reference Groups (CRGs) were set up in 2012 to assist in the transition of “prescribed” specialised services into the NHS Commissioning Board. They provide the clinical leadership and input into the development of commissioning and contracting products for prescribed services. There are over...

Written Answers — Health: Cancer: Accident and Emergency Departments (19 Oct 2012)

Anna Soubry: This information is not held centrally. In November 2010, the National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN) produced an analysis of cancer diagnosis, including for patients diagnosed as an emergency presentation, for all patients diagnosed with cancer during 2007. A copy of the NCIN report, “Routes to Diagnosis”, has already been placed in the Library. The findings of the NCIN report were...


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